"The project
started about two years ago when my friend Linnéa Carell
complained that the local orchestra was a bit bored with
playing 'classical' music. So I suggested: 'Why don't you
play old computer tunes?'

She knew nothing about chip music, so we
met up at my place and spent an evening listening to chip
music - she was very impressed. We went to the orchestra
with some of my remixes and asked if they were willing to
play something like that. They responded that they indeed
wanted to play computer game music. We showed them a bit
of the work by 'C64 Orchestra' and they were hooked. But
since C64 tunes have been done before (as well as a lot
of Nintendo tunes) and the fact that I love Atari chip
music, we decided to go for Atari and especially Jochen
Hippel.

So Linnéa started
making arrangements for orchestra based on my remixes. We
then decided to take it one step further and I came to be
part of the performance on stage playing synth and drum
machines. Since we wanted a bit of contrast we also
decided to play modern game music like 'World of
Warcraft', 'Starwars' and 'Pirates of the Caribbean'.
Because arrangements for those tunes were already
available, my part was limited to control the video
effects."ACC:Xess